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Susan Sontag, New York, February 2, 1978. Photograph by Richard Avedon. ©The Richard Avedon Foundation.
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Furious Permissions

For Susan Sontag, style was nourishment
Brian Dillon
January 1, 2020

Nothing Is a Memory

Remembering Bernadette Mayer
Daniel Poppick
March 27, 2023
Portrait of Sheila Heti
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The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja
March 1, 2022

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022

The Saunterers’ Club

In pursuit of a more wayward Thoreau
Caleb Smith
May 23, 2023
New York Times Cover reading "US Deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss
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Incalculable Loss

How writing can help make sense of grief
Christopher Spaide
May 19, 2021

Sublimation and Self-Possession

Bearing witness to life’s weirdness
Ana Schwartz
May 23, 2023

How to Sharpen a Scythe

Is paying attention good in itself?
Daegan Miller
May 23, 2023

Beyond the Attention Economy

Turning to face our burning world
Laura Dassow Walls
May 23, 2023

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
September 18, 2023